Bibliography
This page lists the sources the archive draws on, in three sections:
Every entry has its own anchor, so a specific source can be linked or cited directly. The order of authority among them is set out on /methodology.
Modern scholarship
Éber 1935. Éber László (ed.), Művészeti Lexikon, 2nd ed., Győző Andor, Budapest 1935, vol. II (L-Z), Rauscher entry. The first lexical recognition, within five years of his death; source of the “egyike volt a legelsőknek” formulation. Arcanum (subscription) / print.
Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon. “Rauscher György,” Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon, ed. Kenyeres Ágnes, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1967-69, vol. II. A 44-word entry; notes the Neue Sachlichkeit affiliation but errs in calling the 1927 Ernst Múzeum show a solo retrospective. Open access (arcanum.com reference library).
Dévényi 1977. Dévényi Iván, “Rauscher György festőművész emlékezete,” Dolgozók Lapja, 9 November 1977. The first post-1945 published notice; source of the “torzóvoltában is jelentős” verdict. Hungaricana (free) / Arcanum.
Gálig 1996. Gálig Zoltán, “Rauscher György festőművész élete és munkássága,” Limes 1996/4, Tatabánya, pp. 7-26. The original study, largely restated in Gálig 2013. (Pagination is 7-26, not the 7-32 sometimes cited, which bundles in the companion essay that follows.) Arcanum (subscription); reprinted in Zsembery 2002.
Salamon 2002. Salamon Nándor, “Marlene Dietrich portréfestője volt,” Limes 2002/6, pp. 161-163. Arcanum (subscription).
Zsembery 2002. Zsembery Dezső (ed.), Rauscher György festőművész 1902-1930, Dorogi Füzetek 26, Dorog 2002. A documentary anthology issued for the birth centenary; reprints the Gálig 1996 article and period press. Print only (Gáthy Zoltán Városi Könyvtár, Dorog).
Gálig 2013. Gálig Zoltán, “Rauscher György festőművész élete és munkássága (Dorog, 1902 – Komárom, 1930),” Art Limes 2013/5 (41), Tatabánya, pp. 94-107 (plates 108-111). A detailed study of Rauscher’s life and work, and the source for the Sedlacek / Schiele / Van Gogh reading. Open access (EPA OSZK).
Számadó 2014. Számadó Emese (ed.), „Ezt a hazát tehát elvesztettem.” A holokauszt komáromi eseményei (“I have therefore lost this country”: The Holocaust in Komárom), Komárom 2014. Cited by Számadó 2019 for the family’s wartime losses. See /holocaust-memorial.
Szeredi 2016. Szeredi Merse Pál, lead essay “Budapest–Berlin–Budapest: magyar művészek Berlinben az 1920-as években,” in Berlin – Budapest 1919-1933, Virág Judit Galéria, Budapest 2016, pp. 11-147 (Rauscher cat. nos. 137, 139). A study of the Berlin milieu of Hungarian artists in which Rauscher worked. Print.
Molnos 2018. Molnos Péter (ed.), Csábítás fegyvere. Divat, stílus és öltözködés száz év magyar festészetében, Kieselbach Galéria, Budapest 2018. Exhibition catalogue placing Rauscher among a century of Hungarian painters of fashion and style. Print.
Számadó 2019. Számadó Emese, Rauscher György, az új tárgyiasság és a gáláns világ festője, Komáromi Klapka György Múzeum katalógusai XXVIII, Komárom 2019. ISBN 978-615-5588-11-2; ISSN 1588-9467. A full-length monograph on Rauscher’s life and work, published by the Komáromi Klapka György Múzeum. See /klapka-muzeum.
Period press (1919-1936)
Komáromi Lapok, 29 March 1919. Reports Dr. Rauscher Zsigmond’s appointment as honorary chief municipal medical officer of Komárom.
Magyar Grafika, 1 March 1926 (3-4, p. 76). First major notice: “a strikingly talented young artist.”
Pesti Napló, 23 and 26 May 1926. Reviews of the Tavaszi Szalon (with a published correction).
Magyarország, 29 March 1927 (p. 8). The honourable mention at the second Szinyei Társaság Tavaszi Szalon.
Nyugat, 1 May 1927 (1927/9). Rabinovszky Márius on the KUT exhibition: “startlingly decadent … because his suggestive artistic power is very great.”
Komáromi Lapok, 1 October 1927. Komárom notice of the 1927 Budapest activity.
Pesti Napló, 25 September 1927. On the Ernst Múzeum group exhibition.
Pesti Hírlap, 11 September 1927. Describes the Ernst Múzeum work as “almost ascetically cold.”
Magyar Grafika, 1 September 1927 (9-10, p. 373). Enthusiastic notice of the 1927 work.
Komáromi Lapok, 13 March 1928 (p. 4). Reports the success of the Brünn (Brno) solo exhibition, “almost every work sold.”
Színházi Élet, 1928/51. The Berlin New Year’s Eve of 31 December 1928, with Esterházy Ágnes.
Pesti Futár, 1929/23 (p. 23). Rauscher in the Berlin film-and-theatre milieu (Berlini Filmklub, KÜKÁ).
Lyka 1930. Lyka Károly, obituary, Magyar Művészet 1930/9-10, p. 647. The touchstone obituary: “he sought not so much formal solutions as expression.”
Magyarország, 7 October 1930 (p. 6). The death and the Komárom funeral.
Pester Lloyd, 7 October 1930. German-language Budapest daily; death notice that gives the birthplace erroneously as Kaposvár. (Known indirectly through Hungarian scholarship; verbatim text pending retrieval from ANNO / Arcanum.)
Esti Kurir, 7 October 1930. Obituary.
Nyugat, 1931 (II/72-73). Posthumous reproduction, “Rauscher György rajza: Akt-tanulmány.”
Nyomda és Rokonipar, 3 March 1932 (p. 2). Posthumous notice.
Népszava, 15 September 1935. On the social-critical early work: “bitter indictments against the world … beggars, idiots painted with startling power.”
Pesti Hírlap, 26 October 1935. Fóthy János on the estate exhibition: “sometimes only a hair separates it from fashionable kitsch, but that hair is never missing.”
Nemzeti Újság, 1935. Review of the estate exhibition: “tart colours, sombre tones, distorted curiosities.”
Esti Kurir, 27 October 1935. On the estate exhibition: “his graphic work absolute perfection … his subjects the will to live.”
Magyarság, 27 October 1935. On the estate exhibition: “whichever path he had taken, he would have risen high.”
Magyar Iparművészet, 1935/3-4 (p. 58). Fábián Gyula notice.
Őserő, 1935/1. I. L. on the Nemzeti Szalon estate exhibition.
Auction and museum records
MNG: Szomory Dezső portrait. Magyar Nemzeti Galéria record for Szomory Dezső portréja (1927); a preparatory study is at the Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum (ltsz. 69.135.1).
MNG: Páholyban. Magyar Nemzeti Galéria record for Páholyban (“In the Box”).
OSZMI: Molnár Vera. Molnár Vera portréja (1928, tempera on hardboard, 50 x 39.5 cm, accession 2015.4.1), Országos Színháztörténeti Múzeum és Intézet; a 2015 gift of Dr. Tibor Gaálné.
SNG: Self-Portrait 1924. Self-Portrait (1924, oil on canvas, 65 x 51 cm, accession O 5653), Slovenská národná galéria, Bratislava, listed under “Juraj Rauscher.”
Roseberys: Dr. H. Z. portrait. Roseberys London, sale A0203, lot 800, 9 September 2014; “György [Georg] Rauscher, Hungarian 1902-1930.”
Kieselbach artist file. Kieselbach Galéria artist record for Rauscher György, with auction history.
Virág Judit 2021. Virág Judit Galéria, 67th autumn auction, 17 October 2021 (Rauscher as lots 16 and 86).
Hölgy karszékben. Auction record for Hölgy karszékben (Lady in an Armchair).
Brigetio Heritage. Brigetio Heritage Visitor Centre (Komárom) display of the Klapka György Múzeum Rauscher collection, 2023 onward; bilingual EN/SK gallery texts.
Jugend 1929, no. 13. Independently verifiable facsimile of Rauscher’s Jugend cover at Heidelberg University Library; also on Wikimedia Commons (Category:György Rauscher).
Bulk export: /data/bibliography.csv. Corrections to any entry are welcome via /corrections.